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Put simply, NAIS is a program that will require reporting and registration of all premises that house or manage any animal classified as an agricultural animal everywhere in the United States. It will not matter whether you are commercial or noncommercial or whether you own one animal or ten thousand animals. It will also require the reporting of movement of all animals onto or off of a registered property within 24 hours of the movement. There will be a stiff fine for any failure to report or register.

NAIS was originally designed to track the movement of any agricultural animal which was imported into the USA, and to track any contact that animal might have with a domestically produced animal. The goal of NAIS is to track and prevent or contain disease in animals entering the human food chain.

Another benefit of NAIS for larger scale food animal producers who ship their animals or animal products internationally, is that many foreign countries require this type of tracking of food animals. However, large producers' animals will be tracked by group or lot, not individually. If you have 50 animals, it will cost you $10-$12 each to chip the animals and you will have to track each animal's movement separately, the large producers will have to identify the group as a single unit, and track that unit's movements.

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